It sure is Trappist quad. Sweet caramel and some estery fruit notes, very slick palate, not amazing flavors but not bad. Far from the best thing I’ve ever tried, but happy to have finally tried it.
Festival 2013.

Had a bottle from ’04 in the basement, so after passing my PhD defense, figured what better time to pull one out (and when you pull out something like this, its time to get on RB). Body is dark brown, and a minimal head is representative of its age, but the carbonation was still very nice. Started off cold (33F) and allowed to warm up through the 50s...the nose was beautiful from the beginning with a ton of sweet, candied fruit, toffee, mild alcohol and a general richness. Flavor was candied fruit, raisin, toffee, beautiful! Palate was medium bodied, and thankfully the age didn’t seem to take much of a toll here...quite easy drinking for the ABV...a shame I only have one (and of course, couldn’t not share this with a good friend to celebrate). Excellent offering that I should try fresh sometime!

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